As I sat down to make my Resolutions and Goals for 2011, I immediately started to make the same ones I do every year! Lose weight, exercise more, eat better, and so on and so on. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that although I need to lose weight and exercise more, the main thing is I need to take better care of myself. The last year with my focus on growing my business and eventually on the store, I let a lot of things slip through the cracks. My house was constantly a mess (and the basement/office is still) and I hated walking into it. So, for Christmas, John and I gave each other home improvement projects! The first was new carpet (love Empire Today and yes they really do install next day!), second, new living room furniture and the final project will be house painting. It made me feel so much better to walk in my house!
In the spirit of home improvement, I realized that so many of you inspired me with things you brought in over the holidays for me to monogram, that I have been on a tear with "monogram projects" around my house!
As my Mom and I were shopping for accent pieces, I told her I wanted to redo my bedroom. I figure while we are re-doing all these other things, might as well do it all. She looked at my like I was crazy and told me what a waste of money. My bed linens are still in really good shape. So as I was thinking, I remembered that yes, I can monogram and what better way to dress up my bedroom. I went a little overboard, but it updated my room without a huge expense. Even though hugely popular, I am not a fan of the "couples monogram". No reason at all, I just like putting my monogram on everything ;)! But for the bedroom, I wanted a more masculine monogram and frankly, the combination of our two initials looked best.
Here is an example of some accent pillows I monogrammed for a bedroom over the holidays:
It doesn't take a lot to update a room. You don't even have to buy new pieces! Just bring me items you already have and we can figure out a great way to dress them up.
The "unadvertised" special found only on my blog for January is get 1 item monogrammed, get a second monogrammed for half price. This special applies only to monograms.
Each week in January, I will show you how I updated another room with monogramming. Next week will feature a child's bedroom. Happy New Year and May God Bless us All in 2011!
